Automatically save to F Drive

[pioneer1963]

Hi,

I've recently purchased a Western Digital Multimedia Drive 1TB as my laptop C Drive is full. Can anyone advise me how i can format the pc to automatically save everything to my F Drive , thanks

[Plastic Nev]

I am not too sure I understand exactly what you want to do here, do you mean how to transfer your data to the new hard drive?

If you mean new data such as music from a CD or Photo's from camera or even video you normally would choose where to put it each time any way.

If on the other hand you already have as I do a folder situated at present on my "C" drive where downloads go to automatically, which was set up in my browser, just navigate to downloads in whichever browser you are using, then set it to send to a new folder on your new drive. Providing the drive is permanently connected.

Hope I have understood your question correctly,

Nev.

[pioneer1963]

Thanks Nev,

Firstly whats the best way of transferring the large files ( Films/music ) from the laptop to the F Drive which the external hard drive is connected to. Secondly, is it possible to format the F Drive so that everything saves automatically gets stored on the external hard drive, thanks

[Plastic Nev]

First just click and hold down on the file, or even full folder, you want to copy over to the hard drive "F" and drag it and drop it onto the "F" drive is the quickest. In most cases it will copy only, that actually is best, that way you can first check the file has copied over correctly and is intact. Once sure the file is OK, then you can delete the file on "C" drive.

As far as I know there isn't a way to change anything so that things automatically go to the new "F" drive as "C" is always the default path. The only thing that can be directed over to it is downloads, done via your download manager in the browser. Otherwise, as I said earlier you will have to navigate stuff over manually.

 

Nev.

[pioneer1963]

Thanks Nev, more than helpfull